Montana researcher reflects on 30 years of wolves in Yellowstone
Researcher Mark Hebblewhite uses radio telemetry to track wildlife in Canada’s Banff National Park during his doctoral research 23 years ago. (Photo courtesy of Mark Bradley)
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Snow crunched underfoot as Mark Hebblewhite scanned the ridgelines of Canada’s Banff National Park. It was 1995, and the young biologist, fresh out of undergrad, was trailing one of the park’s most elusive wildlife species — the gray wolf.
Though rare to see, the wolves of Banff had radio collars that allowed biologists like Hebblewhite to track their movements from many miles away.
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